My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what’s good and what’s not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing. – Jason Bateman
There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow. – James Mattis
There’s no conversation more boring than talking about what it’s really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don’t care. – Adam Brody
I’ve played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of ‘Waiting for Godot.’ I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I’ve had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver. – Barry Humphries
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room. – Amanda Pays
Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can. – James Altucher
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation. – Anthony Carmona
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. – Alice Walker
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don’t accept it and you’re having a conversation with someone who does, it’s just one of those polite things where you don’t question their belief in ghosts. You just go, ‘Oh, yeah, okay.’ It’s amazing to be able to have conversations like that. – Alice Englert
There was never a moment when I was like, ‘I’m going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.’ – Chelsea Handler
I don’t know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can’t. It’s horrible. – Alexa Vega
I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members. – Andra Day
It’s almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about health-care reform in Arkansas without passions rising and folks taking sides. – Asa Hutchinson
I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation. – Brie Larson
I personally wonder… regardless of whether you’re a religious person or not, everybody comes into every conversation with a particular worldview and things that you believe are right or wrong. The question is can you counsel from a totally non-value-based position? – Bill Haslam
There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press ‘send,’ and everyone’s got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher. – Billy Crystal
I’ve been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, ‘Well, after this movie, you’re gonna be the biggest movie star.’ I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that. – Alden Ehrenreich
Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it’s much more about how we may be destroying everyone else. – Anna D. Shapiro
I personally read criticism – at least by writers I enjoy – to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that’s the function I serve for others. – Ben Brantley
I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she’d just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation – while everyone was weeping! – Beeban Kidron
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise. – Anne Fortier
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. – Agnes Repplier
I really don’t like going out. I don’t like restaurants because I don’t like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I’ve always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing. – Amy Sedaris
I knew I didn’t want to come out in the ‘New Yorker’; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation. – Binyavanga Wainaina
When I get economic development calls from business leaders who are considering relocating or expanding in Arkansas, the abilities of our workforce are always a critical part of the conversation. – Asa Hutchinson
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. – Clifton Fadiman
I think it’s a false distinction to say that conversation and composition are separate. Because even as we speak, I’m seeing. Every interview is different, and I’m finding new ways to talk about ancient preoccupations. And I sometimes come on something that’s immensely helpful and valuable. Plus I like the sensation of conversation. – Allan Gurganus